Grigory Vakulinchuk

Grigory Vakulinchuk (1877-27 June 1905) was an Imperial Russian Navy sailor who led a mutiny on the battleship Potemkin during the 1905 Russian Revolution.

Biography
Grigory Vakulinchuk was born in 1877 in Velyki Korovyntsi, Russian Empire (now in Zhytomyr Oblast, Ukraine), and he worked in a sugar factory until he was conscripted into the Imperial Russian Navy during the Russo-Japanese War. Vakulinchuk learned to read in radical study circles, and he gave fiery speeches encouraging the crew of the battleship Potemkin to join the workers during the 1905 Russian Revolution. When frigate captain Ippolit Giliarovsky ordered his men to fire on sailors who had refused to eaten maggoty meat, Vakulinchuk told the men to stand down, and they did. Giliarovsky ordered them to fire repeatedly, but they mutinied when he attacked them. Vakulinchuk was shot in the back by one of the officers during the uprising, and he told his friend Afanasi Matushenko to continue the revolution, and he divided his savings between his father and fellow sailors before he died.